Three-month-old baby found unresponsive dies in hospital

Father put boy in bed with him and woke to find him cold Tuesday morning

August 27, 2013|By Ian Duncan, The Baltimore Sun

A three-month-old boy was declared dead in the hospital Tuesday morning after police found him unresponsive with his father, Baltimore Police said.

The father said he put the infant in bed with him at a home in the 4000 block of the Alameda around 8 a.m., police said. He woke up two hours later to find the baby cold and unresponsive, according to police. The baby was taken to the hospital but declared dead shortly before 11 a.m.

Police identified neither the son nor the father.

Det. Angela Carter-Watson, a police spokeswoman, said homicide detectives are investigating the incident.